Online accounts say three were killed as security forces used batons and tear gas to clear a blockade of an expressway in Shantou prefecture by hundreds of protesters opposing construction of a coal-buring power plant.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay again condemned the brutal crackdown on protesters by military and security forces in Cairo, where 11 people have been killed in repression over the past four days.
Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
Local environmentalists and Philippine opposition lawmakers charge that unbridled logging and mining activities in Northern Mindanao are behind the devastating floods that have left nearly 1,000 dead and hundreds missing.
Peruvian authorities finally allowed paroled US citizen Lori Berenson to leave for a brief visit to her family in New York; meanwhile, ex-president Alberto Fujimori is hoping to get a pardon.
Hundreds of Dominicans of Haitian origin demonstrated in Santo Domingo to protest a court ruling that they say lets the election board invalidate the citizenship of some 4,000 people.
Brazilian soldiers, “peacekeepers” with a United Nations force Haiti, detained two water delivery workers and a friend without cause, robbing them and beating them repeatedly.
Mexican ex-officials work as informants for the US DEA, which turns out to be laundering money for the cartels as part of the “war on drugs”; meanwhile, the murders of peace activists continue.
Two Mexican students were killed by police gunfire around as police agents and soldiers attempted to disperse protesters blocking the Mexico City-Acapulco highway near the capital of Guerrero.
Ron Paul wants to privatize the national parks, abolish the EPA and open up virtually all offshore waters to BP and Exxon. Why are so-called “progressives” continuing to shill for this shill of Big Oil and the resource industries?
The US handed over the last detainee in Iraq, Ali Mussa Daqduq, to Iraqi authorities—over the protests of John McCain and other Republicans, who wrote that the transfer “could pose an unacceptable risk to US national security interests.”
Even as the White House censures Venezuelan officials for “narco-terrorist” ties, the Hugo Chávez government handed a top Colombian drug trafficking suspect, Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco AKA “Valenciano,” over to US authorities.
